WJIB

[Dan Strassberg]

In Arlington Heights, on my SRIII, rotated to maximize the signal strength
of WJIB (which happens to about null WKOX, WAMG, and WBIX), WJIB is pretty
good on maybe 2/3 of nights (actually 2/3 of the time, because a night
that's good for receiving WJIB at, say, 8:00PM.can become pretty awful by
miidnight or vice versa). OTOH, the frequency difference between WJIB and
CHWO, which is usually about 3 Hz (or do I mean 1.5 Hz?--three signal minima
per second), is pretty annoying. For me, the frequency difference seems to
have been chosen to maximize the sensation of vertigo.

--
Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
eFax 707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: <markwa1ion@aol.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: WJIB


> <<
> >As for 750, there's an app for the Bangor area that seems almost ready
> >to be granted if it hasn't yet been granted. 50 kW-D/10 kW-N DA-N
> >using four towers to produce a teardrop pattern aimed
> >southeast
>
> So, I guess that means they'll have a great signal in Bermuda!
>
> -- Larry Weil
> Lake Wobegone, NH
> >>
>
> Actually in Bermuda with this set-up, 750 will be a three-way slugfest
> with the new Mainer + WSB + YVKS (Caracas).  Bermuda does get some fat
> signals from the USA, especially the NYC stations, some of which can be
> heard at midday on reasonably sensitive receivers.
>
> The Venezuelan actually dominates 750 most nights at places like West
> Dennis on the Cape.  There's a Cuban, a Colombian, and the Newfie
> (CBGY) in the imbroglio too (besides the YVKS/WSB "usuals").
>
> The Bangor station has about a 40 mile run of land SE en route to Bar
> Harbor.  The Ellsworth and Bar Harbor areas have enough people,
> especially in summer, to make this coverage area desirable.  There was
> an additional Bangor outlet in the past (WGUY-1250) besides present day
> 620 and 910 (and Ellsworth's 1370).  I'm not sure how well the
> big-money coastal resorts are served on FM.
>
> Back to WJIB, it would seem that if Long Island (about 100 miles closer
> to Toronto) can get away with 40 watts or so going west / northwest,
> then maybe WJIB could nudge the power up a little bit from 5 watts at
> night.  But I'm sure that the 5 watt figure was not arrived-at by
> accident and that if WJIB could run any more, it would.  Here in the
> southern end of Billerica I do get it OK here at night on my
> communications receiver set-up which is connected to a special outdoor
> antenna ("Flag") that nulls substantially towards the Great Lakes area.
>   On car radios or table radios, 740 is a bunch of mush at night around
> here with Toronto typically atop, WJIB a bit behind, and CHCM
> (Newfoundland) popping through occasionally.  I think that Arlington
> Heights or Lexington is about the inland limit of WJIB most nights on
> regular radios.  Dan can no doubt give us this info.
>
> Anyway, I hope that Bob Bittner can keep his programming here in the
> Boston area.
>
> Mark Connelly - Billerica, MA
>
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